Month: February 2016

Leap Day is like electing a new President: a convoluted thing that luckily only happens once every four years. Leap Day is like missing your flight because you went to the airport at 5 pm instead of 5 am: the effect of a calendar approximation. Leap Day is like getting a two dollar bill as a change: weird, but somehow cool. I […]

I woke up in a room that I didn’t know, in a home that was not my own. Panic had me for a few long seconds. Then I turned around in the bed, swishing of sheets I couldn’t recognize, to finally see something I could never forget: X’s sweet shape, wrapped in the same sheets, still sleeping […]

What did I think? I thought this was my chance for happiness, and I said yes. I said yes without hesitation, not even for a second; I said yes with all my rational and irrational self, ready to whatever would come from that late evening. X’s home was exactly as I expected it, a perfect […]

Nothing could have been more perfect. Right when the sun was disappearing into the calm ocean, when the reds and violets of the sunset were the brightest and most fascinating, X’s arm touched mine, and we stopped walking. Silence fell between us: we forgot what we were talking about, we looked into each other’s eyes and […]

Is this love? The question fogged my head all day long, as flashes of X’s eyes and the deep world they were hiding kept coming to my brain, while I was trying to focus on my daily tasks at work. Can this be love? Can love burst into existence this suddenly? Maybe it had been growing […]

Love is hard. Everybody knows it, everybody always tells me: love is hard. It’s not just hard to find the right partner, among billions of potential lovers on this planet, it’s also and mostly hard to keep the relationship alive and healthy for a long time, potentially for life. The whole process is very complicated, we all […]